Tom O' Brien, author and playwright

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY BRONTE

Emily wrote only one book, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, and is world famous because of it. Yet, she wrote and published many poems in her short life and hardly anybody knows it. She published a book of poems with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, called POEMS OF CURRER, ELLIS AND ACTON BELL, which initially sold only 2 copies. This is one of those poems

No Coward Soul Is Mine

No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.

O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life – that in me hast rest,
As I – Undying Life – have power in Thee!